10:09 AM: Zooming in close enough on a map (using pinch-to-zoom) will cause the map to automatically switch to satellite view for easier navigation.

10:10 AM: Microsoft is — obviously — using Bing to power all their maps and search functions.

10:13 AM: “Instant Answers” feature will give you one-click answers to questions. Holding “Start” button will allow you to ask (using your voice) a question that will be uploaded to Bing. Example was “Alaska Flight 7” and Bing service returned the flight time. No typing required. Think Google Voice Actions.

10:15 AM: Going over “hubs” now. Six Windows Phone hubs that revolve around common tasks.

10:17 AM: Hubs tasks are viewed by swiping left and right on the phone from within a tile.

10:17 AM: Recently called, social networking… we’ve seen it all before.

And to think Microsoft actually thinks cellphone companies will pay them to use this garbage cellphone OS…

Gimped worse than the iPhone and its only feature bullet point is integration with the biggest piece of garbage ever created, the Xbox 360, and its creepy Nintendo Mii avatar ripoffs?

Fail. Microsoft. Fail.

thedogscar

YAWN … until we gets some hands on!!!

Notice they did products for AT&T and T-Mobile first … makes me think Sprint and Verizon may be getting 4G (LTE/Wimax)?

Mark Thomas

Yeh, fugly interface.

Shepherd

Ho hum

kingPin

Why can’t Microsoft come up with one decent product?

Jarrett’s 13-toed son w/1st cousin

Like the computer you sent this comment from?

Josh

How do you know that he was using a PC?

Cliffy

Yep. Coulda been sent on a Mac.

Oh wait, Mac is a brand of PC’s… oops.

Whatever

And then there’s the “smartphone”, also known as a handheld computer integrated within a mobile phone. Sounds like a “personal computer” to me, but w/e.

im sleep

It look like the people on the picture is sleep while he talking :………*bore*

mrrd

ditto

Nads

I guess only time will tell how WP7 performs and ultimately sells. As far as I’m concerned, so far NO good.

Mitch

Ralph said the UI was unlike anything he has ever seen? No kidding. It sucks.

Has he not even picked up one of the iPhones his company is selling? Blows WM7 out of the water.

I hate Windows, and I don’t even like the iPhone but it is still superior in every single way.

justme

except for processor speed, screen size, ability to interface with windows documents without worry… ummmm yeah every single way

Joe

I have to disagree, the iPhone’s interface is the most boring interface in the market, there’s no design to it at all what so ever, you unlock the screen and there’s all your app’s tiled… that’s it.

This Windows 7 interface looks a lot like the Zune HD’s which is quite nice… WAYYYYY nicer than the ipod/iphone interface. But the real question about these Windows 7 devices is how will they actually perform?

RJB

Well if the Windows 7 phones sell like hot cakes like the Zune did…..?

This is a fail for Microsoft.

jaxstate

I hope AT&T let people upgraded early like that did with the iPhone 4. If they do, I’m ditching my iPhone and grabbing one of these phones.

@mitch shut the fugg up.

Mitch

Go for it, guy. You will be one of the few.

I got a chance about two weeks ago to use a HTC WM7 phone for about four hours. Walked away COMPLETELY disappointed, other than the hardware which was typical HTC quality.

For those of you heaping such praise on the phone, have you even used it???

Chris

Nice lie.
Considering no dev ever had their hands on HTC phones since the only phones that were handed out to the devs was LG and Samsung.
Making up lies to make a point, huh?
Have YOU ever used it?

Hey now

You speak for all Devs now? You must be fully in charge of some bullshit, aren’t ya?

Chris… you dumbass

HTC HD3…. in June of this year.

Chris… you dumbass

And the HTC Mondrian as well…. in May of this year.

Mitch

I work for one of the networks that will have the phone at launch.

Which one, of course will go unnamed.

GTFO of here.

Chris

Those are called testing units that are WITHIN the company. You obviously do not work for HTC. Also, unless you’re a developer, you never had your hands on ANY software which clearly seems to be the case here.
Again, AT&T and T-mobile sales rep do not get first hands months in advance which is what your initial claims were.
Now, stop wasting time and go onto apple discussions board and start trolling about how the iPhone is the best of the best.

Jared Foley

Looks like the Kin on steroids.

MN

MS is too late to the game. They should have made up for it with delivering something revolutionary but who am I kidding….MS tries to spin it like they are the pioneers of everything. Ballmer & Co. FAIL!

iHateLusers

Wow!!!!! This is so cool!!!! WINDOWS PHONE 7 IS THE GREATEST SMARTPHONE OS EVER!!! iPhone and Android are dead as a dodo once WP7 comes out. Microsoft FTW! Windows Phone 7 FTW!!!

Mitch

I sense a lot of sarcasm in there.

Jarrett’s 13-toed son w/1st cousin

Does is ship with a RRoD repair kit or do we pay for that separately?

Jarrett’s 13-toed son w/1st cousin

lolz.

Does IT ship with a RRoD repair kit or do we pay for that separately?

cyberstoic

Well at least if it RRoD’s they will fix it in three weeks or so. I mean, mine has only been fixed 5 times in three years, gone a month at a time in shipping, but really, whose counting or bitter about it.

But you probably don’t have to pay separately, didn’t on the 360 until the warranty gave out.

JR

Any Windows product would become a whole lot sexier if the board ditched Steve Ballmer. Microsoft would have been dead if not because of its well-established products keep on printing money to pay for projects that keep on losing money.

Locus

jaxstate, that is idiotic! The idea that this phone is superior to iphone4. You will probably be the single idiot to switch

JW

Belifiore’s hair says everything about WP7

Norm

These phones are all complete ripoffs of DROID. At&t is really trying to do what we did with DROID and this just won’t cut it. DROID and VZW are the best, not this garbage.

Cliffy

NORM!

Droid Rules

Everyone in my trailer park agrees that VZW rocks!!

EggRaid

So which is it? Some fanboys says its a step backwards, you say its a ripoff. You haters forgot to meet first to get your hate in order.

Joe

I love how people insist on calling the ANDROID platform DROID…. And they probably don’t even know that the “Droid” name is a marketing gimmick where Verizon pays George Lucas for naming their phone after robots in Star Wars.

Droid Rules

Windows has turned into another Palm, Blackberry, and Apple. There is no way to compete with Android. Nobody gives a crap about functionality, it’s marketing, baby.

NotanIdiot

I love how people like Norm are so stupid…

“OMFG DROIDS AND VZW ALL THE WAY!”

I hate people like you that buy cell phones from me, coming in thinking every android is a fucking Droid.

Dumb.

Droid Rules

Like Verizon has “3G”. Jeez, how stupid are the Lemmings?

justme

but i thought they had the most “3G” coverage.. does that mean i can talk and surf the web across the country

Droid Rules

Thet say it’s “3G’, so it must be true. You must not be an expert in “wireless technology” (i.e. took shop class before dropping out of HS).

Michael

verizons 3g is super slow and doesn’t support simultaneous voice/data at the same time=major fail!

justme

but on my 3G i can do both at the same time… and by the EOY it will cover more than VZW and be as fast as this LTE netowrk they claim to be putting up in like 31 markets.. hmmm so when my company gets done spending an estimated 39 billion on upgraded towers that will cover the entire nation in 3g with over 3/4 of the towers also being able to seamlessly be turned onto LTE then what will this magical VZW have going for them? other than 7507 different android choices?

Monique

it won’t be long for VZW to have simultaneous talk and surf the web at the same time on their 3G network….

In a couple small cities and there still won’t be a variety of lte devices for a while so whats the point?

Monique

@ Michael, the workaround for simultaneous data and voice will be for the CURRENT 3G network…LTE will have this as well at launch of course but the article is saying that this network upgrade will be for Verizon’s CURRENT 3G network which covers most of North America right now…

Gadget God

I’m pretty sure you’ve all missed the ship…no companies will be working to upgrade or implement new technologies as part of their THIRD generation network.

Instead, they have all begun development of their 4G networks. Sprint went with the completely lackluster WiMAX technology just to be the first through the door, T-Mobile will be going with HSPA+, which is also lackluster in overall performance, but it CAN be easily upgraded to LTE, which brings us to the big two. Verizon Wireless, the company you’re up in arms against, will be launching their 4G network next month. Granted, this will initially be only for mobile broadband devices, with eventual integration in smartphones by mid 2011 (It takes time to upgrade a nationwide network folks). This technology is the technology chosen by the 3 largest wireless carriers across the world, Verizon Wireless, Vodaphone and China Mobile, which means SIM cards, worldwide use, AND yes, voice and data services at the same time. AT&T will also be going with LTE as their 4th generation network technology, but it won’t be released until mid 2011, and truthfully, they won’t have the spectrum available to compete with VZW speeds. Once we see the Verizon Wireless implementation of LTE beginning next month, and well into 2011, the face of the wireless industry will forever be changed. Limitless possibilities abound, they will dominate the cellular world.

There is certainly something to be said for a company so willing to make HUGE leaps and bounds simply for the sake of promoting technological advances, not just for the good of their company, but for the good of their industry.

Monique

As much as we hope LTE will be widespread by 2011, it won’t be until 2012 the earliest. CDMA will be around for awhile (especially for Voice since LTE won’t be used for voice for another 2-3 years), therefore it will make since for VZW to upgrade their 3G network while still rolling out LTE to other markets…hence, the reason for VZW to upgrade their 3G network to do Voice and Data at the same time, just like the VZW exec said in the link I posted

JohnBoy

Is antivirus built in?

NotanIdiot

I wonder when these things are going to start Blue Screening….

Felix

I really excited about the addition of this operating system joining the game.

Michael

I will be ditching my captivate for the dell lightning. Hope it’s released soon!

winston smith

what year is this? 1996?

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

Joe

Must be… you still have an iPhone.

lolz

Since engadget is flooding their site w/ WP7 news, seems like all the Droid/iPhone fanboys have fled to BGR. Gotta bitch somewhere!

Norm

Um this is where we always hang out? I come to this site for DROID and VZW news, which they serve up mostly. I love it here!

Michael

lol @ android/verizon. Both are turds. Did you see LG said they’re not going to use froyo for tablets because it’s unstable!

Monique

so misinformed….Google said themselves that Froyo was not suitable for tablets….the next updated for Android aka Gingerbread will be more suitable for an Android based tablet….the only reason why Samsung is making a Froyo based tablet is because the galaxy tab is more like an over-sized phone (it has phone capabilities but was disabled by all the US carriers) just like the Dell Streak.

Hey now

Monique, your tech-talk has me poppin’ wood…

Gadget God

Yes, unstable because THEIR hardware can’t support it. Froyo was not designed for tablets, it was designed for advanced mobile devices. Get your facts straight…